Infographics on the run

Most of us find ourselves in a place where information gets to us even when trying to hide in a cave! My 'smart?'-phone is constantly buzzing for new tweets, messages and news feeds, advertizing and free press gets rocket-propelled in my hands at the exit of the metro station while my eyes are still trying to open. Reading, reading, reading, screen or paper, doesn't matter. I realize that even my article is way too long for the average pal, most of us won't even finish reading this article (except for me I guess)... I'm dying for nice predigested graphs which don't fit in a banker's routine.
This is where I find Infographics to be so compelling, esthetically pleasing and especially time saving.
On the reading side we've heard of Yahoo recently buying the 'Summly' app from a teenager: Yahoo assumed it is worth up to $30M to be able to propose an automatic intelligent executive summary maker to the public; a time-winning machine! Now the one who's going to create the award-winning app able to automatically produce infographics out of big-data or way-too-long publications is going to sit on a pile of cash stamped by Google.

• To make your own infographics: infogr.am or visual.ly  
• Interesting infographics books: 'The power of visual storytelling', 'The back of a napkin' or 'Datavision'
• A little sidetrack: Suffering from death with powerpoint? You may want to try making a refreshing Prezi presentation @ prezi.com